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This month Martin Kearn will be covering two topics Machine Learning for Muggles and Web Tuning & Performance.

Martin is a technical evangelist for Microsoft based in the UK. In his role, Martin talks with customers, partners, start-ups and anyone who is willing to listen about developing applications on the Microsoft platform. This includes Windows, Office, Microsoft Azure and Web technologies including ASP.net and the Edge browser. Martin has been working with Microsoft development technologies since the late 90's and has been working for Microsoft directly since 2005.

We're hosting the event at UNiDAYS HQ on Castle Boulevard. The venue will be open from 6:30pm and we'll aim for Martin's talk to start at 7pm.

Machine Learning for Muggles

Artificial Intelligence is the latest hotness. We’ve heard how bots are going to be the new apps allowing natural conversational interfaces. Siri, Cortana and Google Now are no longer a gimmick and are becoming more useful every day. Machine Learning sits behind artificial intelligence and on the surface it may seem like a deeply technical, scientific topic. We are here to tell you that it is more accessible than you think. We’ll look at some of the basics around machine learning. We’ll also look some of the API services that make it very easy to implement artificial intelligence ‘smarts’ into your application with simple, standard REST calls

Web Tuning & Performance

Performance matters … it really matters. A poor performing website will suffer low conversions, penalised search ranking and shocking bounce rates. Thankfully, it is easy to fix with a few simple optimisations which reduce both the volume and the size of requests you are asking the browser to make. In this talk we’ll go through some platform agnostic tips and tricks to help you tune and optimise your website to perform like a thoroughbred.

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